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| void | drawtext1 (const char *text, int length, int x, int y) |
| void | draw3 () |
| void | display3 () |
| void | specialKeys3 (int key, int x, int y) |
| void | call_3D_view (int argc, char **argv) |
Variables | |
| char | title [] = "3D Shapes to 2D shapes (no hidden edge)" |
| GLfloat | rotX3 =0.0f |
| GLfloat | rotY3 =1.0f |
| int | number_of_faces1 = 0 |
| Number of faces in 3D model. More... | |
| int | face_index1 [30] |
| Number of vertices in each face. More... | |
| float | Xcor1 [100][30] |
| X coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face) More... | |
| float | Ycor1 [100][30] |
| Y coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face) More... | |
| float | Zcor1 [100][30] |
| Z coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face) More... | |
| int | number_of_edges1 =0 |
| Number of edges in 3D model. More... | |
| int | windowPosX3 =640 |
| Opening window Xposition. More... | |
| int | windowPosY3 =480 |
| Opening window Yposition. More... | |
| int | windowWidth3 = 50 |
| Opening window Width. More... | |
| int | windowHeight3 =50 |
| Opening Window Height. More... | |
| float | XcorA1 [100] |
| X coordinate of first vertex of edge. More... | |
| float | XcorB1 [100] |
| X coordinate of second vertex of edge. More... | |
| float | YcorA1 [100] |
| Y coordinate of first vertex of edge. More... | |
| float | YcorB1 [100] |
| Y coordinate of second vertex of edge. More... | |
| float | ZcorA1 [100] |
| Z coordinate of first vertex of edge. More... | |
| float | ZcorB1 [100] |
| Z coordinate of second vertex of edge. More... | |
| void call_3D_view | ( | int | argc, |
| char ** | argv | ||
| ) |
Main function: GLUT runs as a console application starting at main()
Definition at line 193 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| void display3 | ( | ) |
Handler for window-repaint event. Called back when the window first appears and whenever the window needs to be re-painted.
Definition at line 98 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| void draw3 | ( | ) |
Draw user input 3D figure
Definition at line 69 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| void drawtext1 | ( | const char * | text, |
| int | length, | ||
| int | x, | ||
| int | y | ||
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Function to include text in GL Window
Definition at line 46 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| void specialKeys3 | ( | int | key, |
| int | x, | ||
| int | y | ||
| ) |
Rotation of object via arrow keys, toggle between full screen mode and window mode as well as zoom in/zoom out the object
Definition at line 115 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int face_index1[30] |
Number of vertices in each face.
Definition at line 13 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int number_of_edges1 =0 |
Number of edges in 3D model.
Definition at line 21 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int number_of_faces1 = 0 |
Number of faces in 3D model.
Definition at line 11 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| GLfloat rotX3 =0.0f |
Definition at line 7 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| GLfloat rotY3 =1.0f |
Definition at line 9 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| char title[] = "3D Shapes to 2D shapes (no hidden edge)" |
Definition at line 4 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int windowHeight3 =50 |
Opening Window Height.
Definition at line 30 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int windowPosX3 =640 |
Opening window Xposition.
Definition at line 24 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int windowPosY3 =480 |
Opening window Yposition.
Definition at line 26 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| int windowWidth3 = 50 |
Opening window Width.
Definition at line 28 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float Xcor1[100][30] |
X coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face)
Definition at line 15 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float XcorA1[100] |
X coordinate of first vertex of edge.
Definition at line 33 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float XcorB1[100] |
X coordinate of second vertex of edge.
Definition at line 35 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float Ycor1[100][30] |
Y coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face)
Definition at line 17 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float YcorA1[100] |
Y coordinate of first vertex of edge.
Definition at line 37 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float YcorB1[100] |
Y coordinate of second vertex of edge.
Definition at line 39 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float Zcor1[100][30] |
Z coordinates of points (face and which vertex of that face)
Definition at line 19 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float ZcorA1[100] |
Z coordinate of first vertex of edge.
Definition at line 41 of file 3D_view.cpp.
| float ZcorB1[100] |
Z coordinate of second vertex of edge.
Definition at line 43 of file 3D_view.cpp.


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Oskar Rozenberg Teases Two Nike SB Collaborations (UPDATE)
Special SB Dunk Highs and SB Blazers on the way.
by Sophie CaraanUPDATE (November 18, 2019)
After first teasing his SB Blazer collaboration earlier in the month, Swedish skateboarder Oskar Rozenberg has shared more photos of the corduroy-equipped design and unveiled a first look at an SB Dunk High as well. Of note on the Dunk High is the nonexistent midfoot Swoosh — it’s been replaced in whole by an embroidered black and white shark graphic with bloody red teeth, bending just enough to provide familiar design lines. The rest of the silhouette appears to feature a soft black nubuck base, red laces and an eggshell white midsole. Via the caption, Rozenberg announced that the Dunk will release on December 14, the same day as his Blazers. Get a first look here and stay tuned for more detailed info as it’s available.
 Taking to Instagram to tease the special Blazer iteration, the Bryggeriet graduate made sure to highlight its corduroy upper in rose brown, along with the hits of suede around the eyestay, tongues and panel Swooshes in hues of tan. The tongue tag and insoles are embellished with the Nike SB and OSKi logos, tied together with matching brown laces for a uniform finish.
Stay tuned for more imagery and pricing details. The OSKi x Nike SB Blazer is expected to hit select skate shops on December 14.
In other footwear news, Nike and Kyrie Irving have unveiled the Kyrie 6 preheat collection.


DODS – OPeNDAP Grid Client
Driver short name
DODS
Build dependencies
libdap
Deprecated
This driver is considered for removal in GDAL 3.5. You are invited to convert any dataset in that format to another more common one. If you need this driver in future GDAL versions, create a ticket at https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal (look first for an existing one first) to explain how critical it is for you (but the GDAL project may still remove it). To enable use of the deprecated driver the GDAL_ENABLE_DEPRECATED_DRIVER_DODS configuration option / environment variable must be set to YES.
GDAL optionally includes read support for 2D grids and arrays via the OPeNDAP (DODS) protocol.
Driver capabilities
Supports Georeferencing
This driver supports georeferencing
Dataset Naming
The full dataset name specification consists of the OPeNDAP dataset url, the full path to the desired array or grid variable, and an indicator of the array indices to be accessed.
For instance, if the url http://maps.gdal.org/daac-bin/nph-hdf/3B42.HDF.dds returns a DDS definition like this:
Dataset {
Structure {
Structure {
Float64 precipitate[scan = 5][longitude = 360][latitude = 80];
Float64 relError[scan = 5][longitude = 360][latitude = 80];
} PlanetaryGrid;
} DATA_GRANULE;
} 3B42.HDF;
then the precipitate grid can be accessed using the following GDAL dataset name:
http://maps.gdal.org/daac-bin/nph-hdf/3B42.HDF?DATA_GRANULE.PlanetaryGrid.precipitate[0][x][y]
The full path to the grid or array to be accessed needs to be specified (not counting the outer Dataset name). GDAL needs to know which indices of the array to treat as x (longitude or easting) and y (latitude or northing). Any other dimensions need to be restricted to a single value.
In cases of data servers with only 2D arrays and grids as immediate children of the Dataset it may not be necessary to name the grid or array variable.
In cases where there are a number of 2D arrays or grids at the dataset level, they may be each automatically treated as separate bands.
Specialized AIS/DAS Metadata
A variety of information will be transported via the DAS describing the dataset. Some DODS drivers (such as the GDAL based one!) already return the following DAS information, but in other cases it can be supplied locally using the AIX mechanism. See the DODS documentation for details of how the AIS mechanism works.

String
}
}
Dataset
There will be an object in the DAS named GLOBAL containing attributes of the dataset as a whole.
It will have the following subitems:
Northernmost_Northing: The latitude or northing of the north edge of the image.
Southernmost_Northing: The latitude or northing of the south edge of the image.
Easternmost_Easting: The longitude or easting of the east edge of the image.
Westernmost_Easting: The longitude or easting of the west edge of the image.
GeoTransform: The six parameters defining the affine transformation between pixel/line space and georeferenced space if applicable. Stored as a single string with values separated by spaces. Note this allows for rotated or sheared images. (optional)
SpatialRef: The OpenGIS WKT description of the coordinate system. If not provided it will be assumed that the coordinate system is WGS84. (optional)
Metadata: a container with a list of string attributes for each available metadata item. The metadata item keyword name will be used as the attribute name. Metadata values will always be strings. (optional)
address GCPs
Note that the edge northing and easting values can be computed based on the grid size and the geotransform. They are included primarily as extra documentation that is easier to interpret by a user than the GeoTransform. They will also be used to compute a GeoTransform internally if one is note provided, but if both are provided the GeoTransform will take precedence.
Band
There will be an object in the DAS named after each band containing attribute of the specific band.
It will have the following subitems:
Metadata: a container with a list of string attributes for each available metadata item. The metadata item keyword name will be used as the attribute name. Metadata values will always be strings. (optional)
PhotometricInterpretation: Will have a string value that is one of “Undefined”, “GrayIndex”, “PaletteIndex”, “Red”, “Green”, “Blue”, “Alpha”, “Hue”, “Saturation”, “Lightness”, “Cyan”, “Magenta”, “Yellow” or “Black”. (optional)
units: name of units (one of “ft” or “m” for elevation data). (optional)
add_offset: Offset to be applied to pixel values (after scale_factor) to compute a “real” pixel value. Defaults to 0.0. (optional)
scale_factor: Scale to be applied to pixel values (before add_offset) to compute “real” pixel value. Defaults to 1.0. (optional)
Description: Descriptive text about the band. (optional)
missing_value: The nodata value for the raster. (optional)
Colormap: A container with a subcontainer for each color in the color table, looking like the following. The alpha component is optional and assumed to be 255 (opaque) if not provided.
Colormap { Color_0 { Byte red 0; Byte green 0; Byte blue 0; Byte alpha 255; } Color_1 { Byte red 255; Byte green 255; Byte blue 255; Byte alpha 255; } ... }


| circumstance-package | circumstance package |
| circumstance,package | circumstance package |
| continue | Continue an iterative calculation |
| continue-method | Continue an iterative calculation |
| mif2 | Parallel iterated filtering |
| mif2-method | Parallel iterated filtering |
| pfilter | Parallel particle filter computations |
| pfilter-method | Parallel particle filter computations |
| plot_matrix | A scatterplot matrix with densities on the diagonal. |
| plot_matrix.data.frame | A scatterplot matrix with densities on the diagonal. |
| plot_matrix.list | A scatterplot matrix with densities on the diagonal. |
| pmcmc | Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo in parallel |
| pmcmc-method | Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo in parallel |
| print.plotmatrix | A scatterplot matrix with densities on the diagonal. |


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Well this is a good idea,
He wouldn't do it if it wasn't,
He wouldn't do it if it wasn't one.
Well my friend fancies you,
Oh what a way to begin it all,
You said, "It's always exciting words to hear"
And we woke up together not quite realising how,
Awkwardly stretching and yawning,
Its always hard in the morning,
And I suppose that's the price you pay,
Well oh it isn't what it was,
She's thinking he looks different today,
And now there's nothing left to guess now,
You left before the lights came on,
Because they didn't want to ruin,
What it was that was brewing,
Before they absolutely had to,
And how can you wake up,
With someone you don't love?
And not feel slightly fazed by it,
Oh, he had a struggle,
And they woke up together not quite realising how,
Awkwardly stretching and yawning,
It's always hard in the morning,
And I suppose that's the price you pay,
Well oh it isn't what it was,
She's thinking he looks different today,
And now there's nothing left to guess now,
Quick, let's leave, before the lights come on,
'Cos then you don't have to see,
'Cos then you don't have to see,
What you've done...
Quick, let's leave, before the lights come on,
'Cos then you don't have to see,
'Cos then you don't have to see,
What you've done...
I'll walk you up, what time's the bus come?
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DIABOLIQUE A film review by Christopher Null Copyright 1996 Christopher Null
I've been awaiting this update of the 1955 classic French thriller with a mixture of nervous anticipation and deep-seated dread. The original DIABOLIQUE was one of the few examples of how thrillers ought to be made...and I figured Hollywood would find some way to screw up the remake. (They did, of course.)
The story is timeless. Evil boarding school principal Guy (Chazz Palmenteri) is married to ex-nun Mia (Isabelle Adjani), a nervous "child bride" with a penchant for heart medication. Guy also has at least one mistress, the cold-as-ice Nicole (Sharon Stone), and everyone knows of and quietly accepts the affair. They all work and live under the auspices of the school, and in the darkness of its halls, a plot is hatched by Mia and Nicole to do away with Guy for good. It starts to get a little hairy when, after a seemingly perfect murder is pulled off, things start to seem not-so-perfect and questions over potential witnesses and the actual life-or-death-ness of Guy begin to surface.
As it turns out, my skepticism that DIABOLIQUE could be successfully Americanized and transplanted into the future 40 years was partly unfounded. While it retains a distinctly nostalgic look and feel, the update is mostly a seamless job.  Pieces of DIABOLOQUE are stylish and cool, even bordering on edge-of-your-seat suspense at times.
Then come the problems.  Add Palmenteri's just-like-I-did-in-JADE performance and you've got a mixed-quality picture already. The kicker is the pasted-in additions to the script, as writer Don Roos just couldn't leave the original alone, adding in some long and uninteresting expository scenes, some silly high-tech bits, and, the worst of all, a new, schlocky horror-style ending. With all this, the picture starts to seriously fray around the edges.
What this all ends up with is some good performances and some bad ones in an uneven film with some high points and some low ones. The remake ends up nowhere near the mastery of the original, which *still* ought to surprise you even after you watch the 1996 version.
RATING: ***
\-------------------------------\ |* Unquestionably awful | |** Sub-par on many levels | |*** Average, hits and misses | |**** Good, memorable film | |***** Perfection | \-------------------------------\
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Durable Functions Overview
What are Durable Functions?
"Durable Functions" is an extension of Azure Functions and Azure WebJobs that allows writing long-running, stateful function orchestrations in code in a serverless environment.
A new type of function called the orchestrator function allows you to do several new things that differentiates it from an ordinary, stateless function:
- They are stateful workflows authored in code. No JSON schemas or designers.
- They can synchronously and asynchronously call other functions and save output to local variables.
- They automatically checkpoint their progress whenever the function awaits so that local state is never lost if the process recycles or the VM reboots.
Note
This is an advanced feature of Azure Functions and may not be useful for all applications. The rest of this article assumes the reader has a strong familiarity with existing Azure Functions concepts and the challenges involved in serverless application development.
Patterns
The primary use case for Durable Functions is simplifying complex, stateful coordination problems in serverless applications. To understand whether your application can benefit from Durable Functions, it's useful to look at a few example coordination patterns, which we'll walk through below.
Pattern #1: Function Chaining
Function chaining refers to the common pattern executing a sequence of discrete functions in a particular order. Often the output of one function needs to be applied to the input of another function.
Durable Functions allows implementing this pattern as a simple, easy to understand C# function snippet.
public static async Task<object> Run(DurableOrchestrationContext ctx)
{
try
{
var x = await ctx.CallActivityAsync<object>("F1");
var y = await ctx.CallActivityAsync<object>("F2", x);
var z = await ctx.CallActivityAsync<object>("F3", y);
return await ctx.CallActivityAsync<object>("F4", z);
}
catch (Exception)
{
// error handling/compensation goes here
}
}
Generally speaking, this logic is concise and easily understood by any developer. The values "F1", "F2", "F3", and "F4" are the names of other functions in the function app. Control flow is implemented using normal imperative coding constructs - i.e. code executes top-down and can involve existing language control flow semantics, like conditionals, loops, try/catch/finally, etc., and local variables are used to capture and flow state. If more detailed compensation logic is required, it can be done so naturally with additional try/catch logic.
The built-in ctx
parameter provides methods for invoking other functions by name, passing parameters, and returning function output. Each time the code calls await
, the orchestrator function checkpoints the progress of the current function instance. If the process or VM recycles midway through the execution, the function instance will resume from the previous await
call, much like it would if we were using queues in between each function invocation. More on this later.
Pattern #2: Fan-out, Fan-in
A slightly more interesting pattern enabled by the Durable Functions extension is fan-out, fan-in.
With normal functions, fanning out can be done very easily by having the function output multiple messages to a queue using an output binding. However, fanning back in is much more challenging because work needs to be done to coordinate and orchestrate the data processing.
The Durable Functions extension is optimized to handle this kind of pattern with a relatively simple code snippet.
public static async Task Run(DurableOrchestrationContext ctx)
{
var parallelTasks = new List<Task<int>>();
// get a list of N work items to process in parallel
object[] workBatch = await ctx.CallActivityAsync<object[]>("F1");
for (int i = 0; i < workBatch.Length; i++)
{
Task<int> task = ctx.CallActivityAsync<int>("F2", workBatch[i]);
parallelTasks.Add(task);
}
await Task.WhenAll(parallelTasks);
// aggregate all N outputs and send result to F3
int sum = parallelTasks.Sum(t => t.Result);
await ctx.CallActivityAsync("F3", sum);
}
As demonstrated by the code, the fan-out work is tracked using a dynamic list of tasks. Then using the existing .NET Task.WhenAll
API, a continuation can be scheduled which aggregates the outputs from the dynamic task list and passes it onto a third function. The automatic checkpointing that happens at the await
call on Task.WhenAll
ensures that any crash or reboot midway through does not require a restart of any already completed tasks.
Pattern #3: Async HTTP APIs
The third pattern is all about the problem of coordinating the state of long-running operations with external clients. A common way to implement this pattern is by having the long-running action triggered by an HTTP call, and then redirecting the client to a status endpoint that they can poll to learn when the operation completes.
Durable functions makes implementing these kinds of Async HTTP APIs very simple by providing a set of built-in HTTP APIs for interacting with long-running function executions. We show in the samples a simple REST command that can be used to start new orchestrator function instances. Once an instance is started, the durable extension exposes web hook HTTP APIs that can be used to query their status (for clarity, some details have been removed from the example below).
> curl -X POST https://myfunc.azurewebsites.net/orchestrators/DoWork -H "Content-Length: 0" -i HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted Content-Type: application/json Location: https://myfunc.azurewebsites.net/admin/extensions/DurableTaskExtension/b79baf67f717453ca9e86c5da21e03ec {"id":"b79baf67f717453ca9e86c5da21e03ec", ...} > curl https://myfunc.azurewebsites.net/admin/extensions/DurableTaskExtension/b79baf67f717453ca9e86c5da21e03ec -i HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted Content-Type: application/json Location: https://myfunc.azurewebsites.net/admin/extensions/DurableTaskExtension/b79baf67f717453ca9e86c5da21e03ec {"runtimeStatus":"Running","lastUpdatedTime":"2017-03-16T21:20:47Z", ...} > curl https://myfunc.azurewebsites.net/admin/extensions/DurableTaskExtension/b79baf67f717453ca9e86c5da21e03ec -i HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 175 Content-Type: application/json {"runtimeStatus":"Completed","lastUpdatedTime":"2017-03-16T21:20:57Z", ...}
Because all the state is managed by the Durable Functions runtime, it's not necessary for you to implement your own status tracking mechanism.
Note
More information on the HTTP APIs exposed by the Durable Functions extension can be found in the HTTP APIs topic.
It's important to point out that even though the Durable Functions extension has built-in web hooks for managing long-running orchestrations, it's entirely possible for you to implement this pattern yourself using your own function triggers (e.g. HTTP, queue, Event Hub, etc.) and the orchestrationClient
binding.
// HTTP-triggered function to start a new orchestrator function instance.
public static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> Run(
HttpRequestMessage req,
DurableOrchestrationClient starter,
string functionName,
TraceWriter log)
{
// Function name comes from the request URL.
// Function input comes from the request content.
dynamic eventData = await req.Content.ReadAsAsync<object>();
string instanceId = await starter.StartNewAsync(functionName, eventData);
log.Info($"Started orchestration with ID = '{instanceId}'.");
return starter.CreateCheckStatusResponse(req, instanceId);
}
The DurableOrchestrationClient starter
parameter is a value from the orchestrationClient
output binding, which is part of the Durable Functions extension. It provides methods for starting, sending events to, terminating, and querying for new or existing orchestrator function instances. In the above example, an HTTP triggered-function takes in a functionName
value from the incoming URL and passes that value to StartNewAsync. This binding API then returns response that contains a Location
header and additional information about the instance that can later be used to look up the status of or terminate the started instance.
Pattern #4: Stateful Singletons (aka "Reliable Actors")
Most functions have an explicit start and an end and don't directly interact with external event sources. However, orchestration support a "stateful singleton" pattern that allow them to behavior like reliable actors in distributed computing.
While Durable Functions is by no means a proper implementation of the actor model, orchestrator functions do have many of the same runtime characteristics, including being long-running (possibly endless), stateful, reliable, single-threaded, location transparent, globally addressable, etc. This makes orchestrator functions useful for "actor"-like scenarios without the need for a separate framework.
Ordinary Azure Functions are stateless and therefore not suited to implement a stateful singleton pattern. However, the Durable Functions extension makes stateful singleton relatively trivial to implement. Below is a simple orchestrator function which implements a basic counter.
public static async Task Run(DurableOrchestrationContext ctx)
{
int counterState = ctx.GetInput<int>();
string operation = await ctx.WaitForExternalEvent<string>("operation");
if (operation == "incr")
{
counterState++;
}
else if (operation == "decr")
{
counterState--;
}
ctx.ContinueAsNew(counterState);
}
The above function is what you might describe as an "eternal orchestration" - i.e. one that starts and never ends. It starts with some input value counterState
, waits indefinitely for a message called operation
, performs some logic to update its local state, "restarts" itself by calling ctx.ContinueAsNew
, and then awaits again indefinitely for the next operation.
Pattern #5: Human Interaction and Timeouts
Many types of process automation often needs to involve some kind of human interaction. The tricky thing about involving humans in an automated process is that people are not always as highly available and responsive as cloud services. These automated processes must account for this, and often do so using timeouts and compensation logic.
One example of a business process which involves human interaction is an approval process. One could imagine a system where a manager must approve an expense report that exceeds a certain amount. If the manager does not approve within 72 hours (maybe they went on vacation), then an escalation processes kicks in to get the approval from someone else (perhaps the manager's manager).
This kind of pattern can be implemented using an orchestrator function to coordinate a "durable timeout" with an "external event" notification generated by some human interaction.
public static async Task Run(DurableOrchestrationContext ctx)
{
await ctx.CallActivityAsync("RequestApproval");
using (var timeoutCts = new CancellationTokenSource())
{
DateTime dueTime = ctx.CurrentUtcDateTime.AddHours(72);
Task durableTimeout = ctx.CreateTimer(dueTime, timeoutCts.Token);
Task<bool> approvalEvent = ctx.WaitForExternalEvent<bool>("ApprovalEvent");
if (approvalEvent == await Task.WhenAny(approvalEvent, durableTimeout))
{
timeoutCts.Cancel();
await ctx.CallActivityAsync("HandleApproval", approvalEvent.Result);
}
else
{
await ctx.CallActivityAsync("Escalate");
}
}
}
The important thing to notice here is that the timeout was implemented using ctx.CreateTimer
, ctx.WaitForExternalEvent
, and Task.WhenAny
to synchronize the notification and the timer expiration. Depending on which event occurs first, the orchestrator function takes the appropriate action (escalation or completing the approval process).
The Technology
Behind the scenes the Durable Functions extension is built on top of the Durable Task Framework, an open source library on GitHub for building durable task orchestrations. Much like how Azure Functions is the serverless evolution of Azure WebJobs, Durable Functions is the serverless evolution of the Durable Task Framework. It is used heavily within Microsoft and outside as well to automate mission-critical processes and is a natural fit for the serverless Azure Functions environment.
Event Sourcing, Checkpointing, and Orchestrator Replay
Orchestrator functions reliably maintain their execution state using a cloud design pattern known as Event Sourcing. Instead of directly storing the current state of an orchestration, the durable extension uses an append-only store to record the full series of actions taken by the function orchestration. This has many benefits, including improving performance, scalability, and responsiveness compared to "dumping" the full runtime state. Other benefits include providing eventual consistency for transactional data and maintaining full audit trails/history, which itself can enable reliable compensating actions.
The use of Event Sourcing by this extension is completely transparent. Under the covers, the await
operator in an orchestrator function yields control of the orchestrator thread back to the Durable Task Framework dispatcher. The dispatcher then commits any new actions that the orchestrator function scheduled (such as calling one or more child functions or scheduling a durable timer) to storage. This transparent commit action appends to the execution history of the orchestration instance to durable storage and subsequently add messages to a queue to schedule the actual work. At this point, the orchestrator function can be unloaded from memory and billing can be stopped (if using the Azure Functions Consumption Plan) until there is more work to do, at which point its state can be reconstructed.
Once an orchestration function is given more work to do (e.g. a response message is received or a durable timer expires), the orchestrator will wake up again and re-execute the entire function from the start in order to rebuild the local state. If during this replay the code tries to call a function (or do any other async work), the Durable Task Framework will consult with the execution history of the current orchestration. If it finds that the activity function has already executed and yielded some result, it will replay that function's result immediately and the orchestrator code will continue running. This will continue happening until the function code gets to a point where either it is finished or it has scheduled new async work.
Orchestrator Code Constraints
With this replay behavior in mind, there are a very important set of constraints on the type of code that can be written in an orchestrator function:
- Orchestrator code must be deterministic since it is going to be replayed multiple times. This means there cannot be any direct calls to get the current date/time, get random numbers, generate random GUIDs, or call into remote endpoints.
- If orchestrator code needs to get the current date/time, it should use the CurrentUtcDateTime API, which is safe for replay.
- Non-deterministic operations need to be done in activity functions. This includes any interaction with other input or output bindings. This ensures any non-deterministic values will be generated once on the first execution and saved into the execution history. Subsequent executions will then use the saved value automatically.
- Orchestrator code should be non-blocking - i.e. no
Thread.Sleep
or equivalent APIs. If an orchestrator needs to delay for a period of time, it should use the CreateTimer API. - Orchestrator code must never initiate any async operation outside of the operations exposed by DurableOrchestrationContext - e.g. no
Task.Run
,Task.Delay
orHttpClient.SendAsync
. The Durable Task Framework executes orchestrator code on a single thread and cannot interact with any other threads which could be scheduled by other async APIs. - Because the Durable Task Framework saves execution history as the orchestration function progresses, infinite loops should be avoided to ensure orchestrator instances do not run out of memory. Instead, APIs such as ContinueAsNew should be used to restart the function execution and discard previous execution history.
While these constraints may seem daunting at first, in practice they are quite easy to follow. Where possible, the Durable Task Framework will attempt to detect violations of the above rules and throw a NonDeterministicOrchestrationException
. However, this detection behavior is best-effort and orchestrator code should never depend on it.
Note
Note that all the rules mentioned above only apply to functions triggered by the orchestrationTrigger
binding. Activity functions triggered by the activityTrigger
binding and functions which use the orchestrationClient
binding have no such limitations.
Language Support
Currently C# is the only supported language for Durable Functions. This includes authoring orchestrator functions and activity functions. In the future, we will add support for all languages supported by Azure Functions.
Note
See our GitHub repository issues list to submit requests or see the latest status of our additional language support work.
Monitoring and Diagnostics
The Durable Functions host extension automatically emits structured tracking data to Application Insights when the function app is configured with an Application Insights key. This tracking data can be used to monitor the behavior and progress of your orchestrations.
Here is an example of what the Durable Functions tracking events look like in the Application Insights portal using Application Insights Analytics (click the image below to enlarge):
As you can see, there is a lot of useful structured data packed into the customDimensions
field in each log entry. Here is an example of one such entry fully expanded.
Because of the replay behavior of the Durable Task Framework dispatcher, you can expect to see redundant log entries for replayed actions. This can be useful to understand the replay behavior of the core engine. If you would like to see just the "real-time" logs, you can modify the example query above with a isReplay == false
filter.
Note
For more information and samples related to monitoring and diagnostics, see the Diagnostics topic. General information on monitoring in Azure Functions can be found in the Monitoring Azure Functions documentation.
Storage and Scalability
The Durable Functions extension uses Azure Storage queues, tables, and blobs to persist execution history state and messages that are used to trigger function execution. The default storage account for the function app can be used, or you can configure a separate storage account to create greater isolation in terms of storage throughput limits. The orchestrator code you write does not need to (and should not) interact with the entities in these storage accounts - the entities are managed directly by the Durable Task Framework as an implementation detail.
Orchestrator functions schedule activity functions and receive their responses via internal queue messages. When running in the Azure Functions Consumption plan, these queues are monitored by the Azure Functions Scale Controller and new compute instances are added as needed. When scaled out to multiple VMs, an orchestrator function may run on one VM while activity functions it calls run on several different VMs.
Note
You can find more details on the scale behavior of Durable Functions can be found in the Performance and Scale topic.
Lastly, table storage is used to store the execution history for orchestrator accounts. Whenever an instance re-hydrates on a particular VM, it fetches its execution history from table storage so that it can rebuild its local state. One of the convenient things about having the history available in Table storage is that you can take a look and see the history of your orchestrations using tools such as Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer.
Warning
While it's easy and convenient to see execution history in table storage, you should avoid taking any dependency on this table at this time as the specifics of its usage may change prior to the general availability of the Durable Functions extension.


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This folder contains documentation for “Elektra – the configuration framework for everyone”. If you do not know what Elektra is, then we recommend that you check out our homepage first. This ReadMe deals with the content of the documentation folder and should give you a hint where to look for specific information.
Introductory
- Glossary: The glossary explains common terminology used in the documentation.
- Why: This document describes why you should use Elektra.
- Big Picture: This document provides an birds eye view of Elektra and the key database (KDB).
- Goals: We specify the goals and target audiences for Elektra in this document.
- Security: This guideline shows how Elektra handles security concerns.
- Tutorials: The tutorials folder provides various user related tutorials. If you are interested in developer related tutorials instead, then please take a look at the folder dev.
- News: The news folder contains release notes and other recent information about Elektra.
- Paper: This directory contains a research paper about Elektra, also available in PDF format.
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- Installation: These instructions tell you how you can install Elektra in your favorite operating system.
- Compile: If you want to compile Elektra from source please take a look at this document.
- Help: This folder contains our man pages in Markdown format. The folder man contains these man pages in roff format, which you can read using the Unix utility
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- API: This overview of the application programming interface tells you how you can develop an application that uses Elektra.
- Design: This document describes the design of Elektra’s C API.
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- Metadata: This document specifies data about the KDB (meta information), like supported data types and configuration options.
- Contract: The plugin contract specifies keys and values that an Elektra plugin provides.
Contributing
- Coding: The coding guidelines describe the basic rules you should keep in mind when you want to contribute code to Elektra.
- Git: This document describes how we use the version control system git to develop Elektra.
- Ideas: If you want to contribute to Elektra and do not know what, you can either take a look here or at our issue tracker.
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- Markdown Link Converter: This tool converts links in Markdown files to make them usable in our Doxygen documentation.
- Usecases: This folder contains use cases for our snippet sharing service and the upcoming web user interface for the KDB.


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by Tom Wilemon-VanderbiltA diet high in fiber and yogurt is associated with a reduced risk for lung cancer, according to a new study.
The benefits of a diet high in fiber and yogurt have already been established for cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal cancer. The new findings, based on an analysis of data from studies involving 1.4 million adults in the United States, Europe, and Asia, suggest this diet may also protect against lung cancer.
Researchers divided participants into five groups, according to the amount of fiber and yogurt they consumed. Those with the highest yogurt and fiber consumption had a 33% reduced lung cancer risk as compared to the group who did not consume yogurt and consumed the least amount of fiber.
“Our study provides strong evidence supporting the US 2015-2020 Dietary Guideline recommending a high fiber and yogurt diet,” says senior author Xiao-Ou Shu, a professor of cancer research, associate director for global health, and co-leader of the Cancer Epidemiology Research Program at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Vanderbilt University.
“This inverse association was robust, consistently seen across current, past, and never smokers, as well as men, women, and individuals with different backgrounds,” she adds.
Shu says the health benefits may be rooted in their prebiotic (nondigestible food that promotes growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines) and probiotic properties. The properties may independently or synergistically modulate gut microbiota in a beneficial way.
The research appears in JAMA Oncology. Additional coauthors are from Seoul National University and Vanderbilt.
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If there's an award for the boldest, most unconventional and wildly inventive movie of the year, it has to go to "Being John Malkovich," in which screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze blend surrealism with science-fiction and self-parody. John Cusack stars as an out-of-work puppeteer who takes a job as a filing clerk in a New York office building on the 7 1/2 floor, where the rents are low because the ceilings are half the normal height. It's a great visual gag as workers hunch over, scuttling down the hall. Stuck in an unhappy marriage to an almost unrecognizable Cameron Diaz with dark, frizzy hair, he becomes infatuated with a co-worker, Catherine Keener, who couldn't be less interested.  Cusack can see through the actor's eyes and share whatever he's is feeling - for 15 minutes - until he's dumped into a ditch on the New Jersey Turnpike. When he shares his discovery with Keener, she immediately sees the potential in selling entrance - $200 per person - to this portal so that others can partake in the sensory and emotional experiences of John Malkovich. They become partners in this commercial venture - until, inevitably, the enigmatic Malkovich discovers how they've opened this "metaphysical can of worms."  On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Being John Malkovich" is a clever, outrageous 10. It's a film of astonishing and beguiling originality.
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Does anyone have experience of expanding the emoncms built-in graphing capabilities to take data from more than one contributor? We're interested in using the data collected from a number of users dotted round the country in various teaching scenarios.
Chris.
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http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/greendata/
Re: Graphing data from multiple contributors?
Hello Chris, your project looks really interesting! I've been discussing this with Dominic Zapman of Carbon Coop who we are working with on their smart grid project in Manchester. There's a bit on this here: http://carbon.coop/blog/zapaman/community-smart-grid-prosumer-perspective
The idea is to develop the 'my energy' app in emoncms (or possibly break this out into its own app/module) to aggregate generation and consumption data across a number of households in a group such as the one in Manchester. With aggregated demand, the demand curves should be smoother and matching higher to the variable renewable supply. Looking at generation and supply on an individual household basis could lead to the wrong conclusions, as it might suggest using a battery to distribute or shift peaks (such as kettles, electric cooking, short high power), whereas, it may be more efficient overall, to use the grid to handle the peaks and then storage to handle larger aggregate demand shifts..
The 'my energy' app currently pulls in data from multiple sources, both solar and consumption, from the user's account and then UK grid, wind and co2 intensity data from an account on emoncms.org that's recording that data. It then builds the visualisation on the fly.
I think for larger aggregations of many systems, it might be better to have a background task that polls each individual account for the latest value. Say for solar generation, or house consumption, and then aggregates and records to an aggregator emoncms feed. This would provide a privacy advantage for home consumption, given enough houses in the aggregation, it would be very hard to pick out any particular household's consumption pattern, which would be better than sending each households data to a browser for aggregation on the fly.
Aggregating with a background process, then serving one feed will also greatly improve dashboard load times.
If you're not fixed about the data to aggregate at the start, and page load times are less of a worry, then perhaps building a visualisation front-end that can pull in feeds that are public across a series of accounts might be a good approach. That might be more useful as a research tool.
Re: Graphing data from multiple contributors?
Thanks Trystan - have emailed you.
I don't think we'd be too worried about load times.
Chris.
Re: Graphing data from multiple contributors?
I am taking this further now that I have data from three contributors - and obviously we're expecting many more. I am using CanvasJS for graphing, a package we've used in other projects, and custom PHP scripts to extract the relevant data.
One of the issues is that the database structure does not identify "comparable" feeds - that is there is no flag or indicator, when setting up a feed, that a particular feed represents, say, Solar PV watts. As far as I can see, the feed labels that people enter are purely free text. Without this, its impossible to ask of the system "give me a graph of everyone's power generation for the period 1st Jan 2015 to 1st Jan 2016. To add this would require changes to the feed registration process. Have you got any suggestions for how I should go about this in the "right" way? I'm afraid I'm not a "proper" user of git!
I've already added extra fields to the users table to store "role" (indicates a contributors role inside or outside the University) and "sources" (which renewable energy sources they have). The latter, combined with "location" (in which we store part postcode) has allowed me to create an interactive map using the Google Maps API:
http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/greendata/map.php


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- Added in WordPress 3.4
- Was called Theme Customization API
- Allows developers to customize and add controls to the admin screen
- Live preview
- Accessible through "Appearance" → "Customize"
The Customize API
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Panels - containers for sections
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Sections - UI containers for controls
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Settings - handle live-previewing, saving, and sanitization of your customizer objects
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Controls - define what the input type is (e.g. textarea, dropdown, etc.) and make a setting something controllable and visible.
Where are the values stored?
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Stored in the wp_options table
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Column value: theme_mods_{theme_name} (theme_mods_twentyseventeen)
Why Our Implementation is Better
What is the Better Theme Customizer
- Wrapper for the Customizer API
- Extends functionality
- Easy to setup and configure
Why we use the Better Theme Customizer?
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We build a lot of custom themes
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Easy configuration
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Most themes use a "hacky" implementation without the Customize API (Divi)
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Businessmodel of Neustar
Customer Segments
Neustar provides information and analytics services to a diverse customer base. The Company principally serves marketing and security professionals operating across the following industries:
- Internet and Technology, comprising technology companies, software developers, internet companies, ecommerce companies, and other businesses with online portals;
- Financial Services, comprising various banking institutions and financial services providers;
- Media and Entertainment, comprising online media providers such as news and entertainment portals, as well as industry journals, online magazines, and other digital media businesses;
- Telecommunications, comprising telecommunications service providers and internet service providers; and
- Marketing, comprising various digital marketing and more traditional marketing companies with exposure to the internet. Neustar includes a number of high-profile companies from various sectors among its clients, including Google, John Lewis, Lenovo, Tesco, Forbes.com, and Hilton Worldwide. The Company notably has several contracts in place with North American Portability Management LLC, an industry group that represents all telecommunications service providers in the US, which collectively accounted for more than 40% of the Company’s 2015 revenue.
Neustar primarily serves clients across its domestic market of the US. The Company, however, also does substantial international business, serving clients around the world.
Value Propositions
Neustar provides value to its clients in the following ways:
- Its reputation and industry standing, with the Company established as a leading name in the field of information and analytics services, having a track record for providing effective and reliable solutions, and counting among its clients high-profile names such as Google and Lenovo;
- Its broad range of solutions, with the Company offering a diverse portfolio of analytics solutions, including data onboarding, customer intelligence, and audience planning, and serving customers across multiple business sectors, such as media, telecommunications, and marketing;
- Its proprietary technologies, with the Company developing and utilising a range of proprietary technologies that set its offerings apart from those of its competitors, and enabling it to provide unique solutions; and
- Its accessibility, with the Company operating an online platform that can be accessed by clients online via desktop browsers or through the Company’s mobile app, enabling allowing customers to access key data from anywhere. ### Channels
Neustar operates a website at www.neustar.biz, through which it provides information on its various services, targeted solutions, and corporate activities. The Company’s website also serves as a portal for its various online platforms, each of which hosts to a different collection of tools and solutions.
These platforms include ElementOne, InfoZone, UltraDNS, and Webmetrics, and enable customers to access the Company’s various tools and solutions independently. The Company also offers tools and certain functionality through its mobile app. Despite Neustar’s online presence, the Company does not appear to operate an online sales channel.
Neustar makes its sales and engages in marketing activities through its dedicated in-house marketing and sales organisation, which operates out of the Company’s network of offices across the US. The Company\s sales and marketing teams are primarily aligned by industry vertical including financial services, media and advertising, technology and communications.
According to its annual report, Neustar’s sales employees that service the technology vertical also support the sales teams aligned with the other industry verticals. Under this sales model, the Company seeks to deliver solutions that address the most critical challenges faced by its clients effectively and efficiently.
Customer Relationships
Despite its active online presence, Neustar does not appear to operate a self-service online sales channel. Instead, the Company makes its sales through a dedicated in-house sales force, which consults directly with clients in order to ensure they are provided solutions that most appropriately cover their individual requirements. The Company provides much of its services under private commercial and government contracts, primarily under a fixed-fee model.
Neustar provides ongoing support to its customers, who are able to access various support resources and tools through the Company’s dedicated online support portal. Customers can also contact the Company directly over the phone, by email, or via an online contact form in order to access personalised assistance with queries and technical questions. Additionally, the Company provides online resources such as blog posts, case studies, videos, and FAQs to customers through its website, which can be accessed independently.
Neustar also operates several social media accounts – including with Facebook and twitter – through which it is able to provide company updates and interact with customers directly.
Key Activities
Neustar is a provider of cloud-based information services and analytics solutions. It offers a range of tools and services through its online platforms that enable clients across the media and entertainment, internet and technology, telecommunications, financial services, marketing and information technology sectors to promote and protect their businesses.
The Company provides clients access to proprietary differentiated data sets, offering informative, real-time analytics, which enable clients to make data-driven decisions. Neustar targets two professional fields: marketing, offering chief marketing officers a comprehensive suite of services to plan their media spend, identify and locate desired customers, invest effectively in marketing campaigns, deliver relevant offers, and measure the performance of these activities; and security, providing a range of solutions to security professionals that seek to maximise web performance and protect against malicious attacks.
Key Partners
Neustar works in close collaboration with a network of partners across multiple fields and sectors. These partners support the Company’s core operations and can be organised broadly as follows:
- Supplier and Vendor Partners, comprising suppliers of services, equipment, and tools that are utilised across the enterprise in support of its data collection and analysis operations;
- Marketing and Referral Partners, comprising various online businesses and clients of the Company that promote the Company’s services and drive traffic to the Company and its website in return for commissions;
- Technology Partners, comprising various software developers and information technology companies that assist in developing and implementing the Company’s various online analytics and data collection offerings; and
- Strategic and Alliance Partners, comprising market leading companies across multiple business sectors with which the Company collaborates on a range of joint projects, including marketing and branding assignments. Neustar lists key partners on its website, naming a number of high-profile companies within the technology space, including Google, Amazon Web Services, Adobe, Salesforce, Facebook, and SAP.
Key Resources
Neustar’s key resources are its technologies and intellectual properties, its online platforms, its IT and communications infrastructure, its sales and marketing channels, its partnerships, and its personnel.
Neustar’s success relies in part upon on its ability to protect its proprietary technologies.
The Company depends on trade secret and copyright law to protect its technology, including our software, network design, and subject matter expertise, and enters into confidentiality and license agreements with its employees, consultants, outsourcing suppliers, partners, distributors, and clients. Searches of records published by the US Patent and Trademark Office identified several patent applications filed in Neustar’s name, including application entitled ‘System and method for delivering text messages to call centers’, ‘Method and system for detecting network compromise’ and ‘Methods, systems, and apparatus for predicting characteristics of a user’.
Neustar owns and or leases a number of properties across the US, as well as in India, Colombia, Costa Rica, Australia, and the UK, used for administrative, sales, marketing, support and research and development operations.
Cost Structure
Neustar incurs costs in relation to the development of its technologies and intellectual properties, the operation and development of its online platforms, the maintenance of its IT and communications infrastructure, the operation of its sales channels and the implementation of its marketing campaigns, the management of its partnerships, the procurement of services, and the retention of its personnel.
In 2015 Neustar recorded total operating costs in the amount $763.40 million. This comprised cost of revenue totalling $286.24 million, sales and marketing expenses totalling $206.29 million, research and development expenses totalling $25.68 million, and general and administrative costs totalling $118.65 million.
Revenue Streams
Neustar generates revenue through the provision of various security and marketing-focused data analytics and information services via a range of cloud-based online platforms. The Company derives the bulk of its revenue under services and sales contracts agreed individually with clients.
In 2015 Neustar generated revenue for the year in the amount of $1.05 billion, up on the $963.59 million recorded by the Company in 2014.


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Equivalent to clicking the Define command on the Name submenu of the Insert menu. Defines a name on the active sheet or macro sheet. Use DEFINE.NAME instead of SET.NAME when you want to define a name on the active sheet.
Syntax
DEFINE.NAME(name_text, refers_to, macro_type, shortcut_text, hidden, category, local)
DEFINE.NAME?(name_text, refers_to, macro_type, shortcut_text, hidden, category, local)
Name_text is the text you want to use as the name. Names cannot include spaces, and cannot look like cell references.
Refers_to describes what name_text should refer to, and can be any of the following values.
| If refers_to is | Then name_text is |
| A number, text, or logical value | Defined to refer to that value |
| An external reference, such as !$A$1 or SALES!$A$1:$C$3 | Defined to refer to those cells |
| A formula in the form of text, such as "=2*PI()/360" (if the formula contains references, they must be R1C1-style references, such as "=R2C2*(1+RC[-1])") |
Defined to refer to that formula |
| Omitted | Defined to refer to the current selection |
The next two arguments, macro_type and shortcut_text, apply only if the sheet in the active window is a macro sheet.
Macro_type is a number from 1 to 3 that indicates the type of macro.
| Macro_type | Type of macro |
| 1 | Custom function (also known as a function macro) |
| 2 | Command macro. |
| 3 or omitted | None (that is, name_text does not refer to a macro) |
Shortcut_text is a text value that specifies the macro shortcut key. Shortcut_text must be a single letter, such as "z" or "Z".
Hidden is a logical value specifying whether to define the name as a hidden name. If hidden is TRUE, Microsoft Excel defines the name as a hidden name; if FALSE or omitted, Microsoft Excel defines the name normally.
Category is a number or text identifying the category of a custom function and corresponds to categories in the Function Category list box.
Categories are numbered starting with 1, the first category in the list.
If category is text but is not one of the existing function types, Microsoft Excel creates a new category and assigns your custom function to it.
Local is a logical value which, if TRUE, defines the name on just the current sheet or macro sheet. If FALSE or omitted, defines the name for all sheets in the workbook.
Remarks
You can use hidden names to define values that you want to prevent the user from seeing or changing; they do not appear in the Define Name, Paste Name, or Goto dialog boxes. Hidden names can only be created with the DEFINE.NAME macro function.
If you are recording a macro and you define a name to refer to a formula, Microsoft Excel converts A1-style references to R1C1-style references. For example, if the active cell is C2, and you define the name Previous to refer to =B2, Microsoft Excel records that command as DEFINE.NAME("Previous","=RC[-1]").
In DEFINE.NAME?, the dialog-box form of the function, if refers_to is not specified, the current selection is proposed in the Refers To box. Also, if a name is not specified, text in the active cell is proposed as the name.
Related Functions
DELETE.NAME Deletes a name
GET.DEF Returns a name matching a definition
GET.NAME Returns the definition of a name
NAMES Returns the names defined in a workbook
SET.NAME Defines a name as a value
Return to index


Sample app
demonstrating obtaining Mirakl access token using express and axios
The workflow starts here !
With a link to the mirakl auth server:
Login using your Mirakl Account


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Fixtures can be annotated with @FailFast
to stop further
processing if any exception is encountered. (More details)
However, it can be useful to fail-fast on some exceptions but not others.
The @FailFast
annotation can be supplied with a list of
exception types. In this case, processing will only be stopped if an exception
is encountered that is an instance of one of the exception types in the list.
When the fixture is annotated with @FailFast(onExceptionType={RuntimeException.class, IOException.class})
and processes the following:
<p concordion:execute="myTimeoutExceptionThrower()"> This method throws a TimeoutException (which is not a subclass of RuntimeException or IOException). </p> <p concordion:execute="myMethod()"> This method executes quietly. </p>
It calls
myMethod()
in the Java fixture code because the TimeoutException
thrown by the
first method call does not stop further processing of the test.
When the fixture is annotated with @FailFast(onExceptionType={RuntimeException.class, IOException.class})
and processes the following:
<p concordion:execute="myFileNotFoundExceptionThrower()"> This method throws a FileNotFoundException (which is a subclass of IOException). </p> <p concordion:execute="myMethod()"> This method executes quietly. </p>
It does not call
myMethod()
in the Java fixture code because the FileNotFoundException
thrown by the
first method call stops further processing of the test.


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Getting a clear picture on the front line
Towards an optimal dispatch decision
Benjamin Berhault
Press the 's' key on your keyboard
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Getting a clear picture on the front line
Towards an optimal dispatch decision
Benjamin Berhault
Effectiveness of an emergency service
Good decision at the right time
Effectiveness of an emergency service
The optimal team for a rescue request
- Nature of the emergency
- Location of the request
- Estimated time of transportation of the team
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Immediate response
How long will it take for a first team to reach a location?
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Response capacity
How many teams can be on site within a given timeframe?
Questions ?
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actualTemperature()
cpu1minUtilisation()
cpu1secUtilisation()
cpu5secUtilisation()
fanDescriptions()
fanStates()
isBufferShortage()
isDMAFailure()
isExcessiveError()
isQueueOverflow()
isResourceLow()
memoryFree()
memoryTotal()
memoryUtilisation()
psuDescriptions()
psuStates()
shutdownTemperature()
warningTemperature()
$FAN_STATES
$PSU_STATES
FAN_STATE_FAILURE
FAN_STATE_NORMAL
FAN_STATE_OTHER
OID_ACTUAL_TEMPERATURE
OID_CPU_1MIN_UTILISATION
OID_CPU_1SEC_UTILISATION
OID_CPU_5SEC_UTILISATION
OID_FAN_DESCRIPTION
OID_FAN_STATE
OID_GLOBAL_BUFFER_SHORTAGE
OID_GLOBAL_DMA_FAILURE
OID_GLOBAL_EXCESSIVE_ERROR
OID_GLOBAL_QUEUE_OVERFLOW
OID_GLOBAL_RESOURCE_LOW
OID_MEMORY_FREE
OID_MEMORY_TOTAL
OID_MEMORY_UTILISATION
OID_PSU_DESCRIPTION
OID_PSU_STATE
OID_SHUTDOWN_TEMPERATURE
OID_WARNING_TEMPERATURE
PSU_STATE_FAILURE
PSU_STATE_NORMAL
PSU_STATE_OTHER
A class for performing SNMP V2 queries on Foundry devices
| copyright | Copyright (c) 2013, Open Source Solutions Limited, Dublin, Ireland |
|---|---|
| author | Barry O'Donovan |
actualTemperature() : int
"Temperature of the chassis. Each unit is 0.5 degrees Celcius. Only management module built with temperature sensor hardware is applicable. For those non-applicable management module, it returns no-such-name."
int
The device's chassis temperaturecpu1minUtilisation() : int
int
The device's CPU utilisation - 1 min averagecpu1secUtilisation() : int
int
The device's CPU utilisation - 1 sec averagecpu5secUtilisation() : int
int
The device's CPU utilisation - 5 sec averagefanDescriptions() : array
array
Descriptions of the chassis' fansfanStates(boolean $translate) : array
| see | \$FAN_STATES |
|---|
boolean
If true, return the string representation via self::$FAN_STATES
array
The device's fan statesisBufferShortage() : bool
bool
Buffers adequateisDMAFailure() : bool
bool
DMAs in failure condition?isExcessiveError() : bool
bool
Does the device have any excessive collision, FCS errors, alignment warning etc.isQueueOverflow() : bool
bool
Queues in overflowisResourceLow() : bool
bool
Does the device have a resource low warning?memoryFree() : int
int
The device's dynamic memory available / free (bytes)memoryTotal() : int
int
The device's total memory capacity (bytes)memoryUtilisation() : int
"The system dynamic memory utilization, in unit of percentage"
int
The device's dynamic memory usage utilisationpsuDescriptions() : array
array
Descriptions of the chassis' PSUspsuStates(boolean $translate) : array
| see | \$PSU_STATES |
|---|
boolean
If true, return the string representation via self::$PSU_STATES
array
The device's PSU statesshutdownTemperature() : int
"Actual temperature higher than this threshold value will shutdown a partial of the switch hardware to cool down the system. Each unit is 0.5 degrees Celcius. Only management module built with temperature sensor hardware is applicable. For those non-applicable management module, it returns no-such-name"
int
The device's chassis shutdown temperaturewarningTemperature() : int
"Actual temperature higher than this threshold value will trigger the switch to send a temperature warning trap. Each unit is 0.5 degrees Celcius. Only management module built with temperature sensor hardware is applicable. For those non-applicable management module, it returns no-such-name."
int
The device's chassis temperature warning threshold$FAN_STATES
$PSU_STATES
FAN_STATE_FAILURE
FAN_STATE_NORMAL
FAN_STATE_OTHER
OID_ACTUAL_TEMPERATURE
OID_CPU_1MIN_UTILISATION
OID_CPU_1SEC_UTILISATION
OID_CPU_5SEC_UTILISATION
OID_FAN_DESCRIPTION
OID_FAN_STATE
OID_GLOBAL_BUFFER_SHORTAGE
OID_GLOBAL_DMA_FAILURE
OID_GLOBAL_EXCESSIVE_ERROR
OID_GLOBAL_QUEUE_OVERFLOW
OID_GLOBAL_RESOURCE_LOW
OID_MEMORY_FREE
OID_MEMORY_TOTAL
OID_MEMORY_UTILISATION
OID_PSU_DESCRIPTION
OID_PSU_STATE
OID_SHUTDOWN_TEMPERATURE
OID_WARNING_TEMPERATURE
PSU_STATE_FAILURE
PSU_STATE_NORMAL
PSU_STATE_OTHER


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Rev. George Boronat M.D. S.T.D is a Catholic priest from the Prelature of Opus Dei, working in the Archdiocese of Southwark in London. He is the Chaplain of The Cedars School in Croydon, and of Kelston Club & Study Centre (Balham). He also works in Oakwood School (Purley). He has developed his pastoral ministry mainly with young people.
Scripture quotations are from The Revised Standard Version of the Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1965, 1966 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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— Can I pray – as in talk with God? Most certainly! God created you to be His friend; and friends talk to each other. To do mental prayer you don’t need training. There is no standard method.
— How do I begin? You can begin with the Introductory prayer to tune in. Then… just start talking to Him. As St Josemaría teaches, it is all a matter of getting the conversation started: “You don’t know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, “Lord, I don’t know how to pray!” you can be sure you’ve already begun.”
— What should I do then? You can read the Gospel and the comments of the iPray. They can trigger a topic for your prayer. But remember: the most important part of your prayer is not written in this booklet. The main part is what you say to Him and, especially, what He says to you.
— What should I talk about? About everything! “About Him, about yourself—joys, sorrows, successes and failures, noble ambitions, daily worries, weaknesses! And acts of thanksgiving and petitions—and Love and reparation” (St Josemaría).
— How do I finish? At the end of your prayer you can ask Our Lady for help; you should also give thanks to Our Lord for that dialogue. You can finish, if you want, with the Closing prayer.
My Lord and my God, I firmly believe that you are here, that you see me, that you hear me. I adore you with profound reverence, I ask you for pardon of my sins, and the grace to make this time of prayer fruitful. My Mother Immaculate, Saint Joseph my father and lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.
I give you thanks, my God, for the good resolutions, affections and inspirations you have communicated to me in this meditation. I ask you for help to put them into effect. My Mother Immaculate, Saint Joseph my father and lord, my guardian angel, intercede for me.


Hi! My name is Gyan. I like technology, design and cats.
I currently work on Voice Experiences at Microsoft. In the past, I studied Interaction Design at IDC School of Design, and worked with startups on creating cool apps.
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(PECL win32service >=0.4.0)
win32_set_service_exit_mode — Define or return the exit mode for the current running service
$gracefulMode
= true
] ) : bool
If gracefulMode
parameter is provided, the exit mode
is changed. When the exit mode is not gracefuly, the exit code used can be set
with the win32_set_service_exit_code() function.
This function work only in "cli" SAPI. On other SAPI this function is disabled.
gracefulMode
TRUE
for exit graceful. FALSE
for exit with error.
Return the current or old exit mode.
If SAPI is not "cli", this function emits an
E_ERROR
level error.


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Content-Based Recs
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Explicit vs. Implicit Rating
Single vs. Multiple
Recommendations
Incorporating
User Feedback
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Models Pages:
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Cold Start
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'1', 'Doctor'
'2', 'Patient'
Signin
/signin POST
{
"email": "",
"password": ""
}
/medical_records/:id GET (id: medical_record_id)
{
"id": 1,
"user_id": 1,
"birthday": "1995-09-30",
"height": "1.70",
"weight": "72.00",
"notes": "some notes for Daniela"
}
/medical_records POST
{
"birthday": "1995-09-30",
"height": "1.70",
"weight": "72.0",
"notes": "some notes for Daniela",
"user_id": 1
}
/patients GET
[{
"id": 1,
"first_name": "Daniela",
"last_name": "Fuller",
"email"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"rol_id": 2,
"medical_record": {
"id": 1,
"user_id": 1,
"birthday": "1995-09-30",
"height": "1.70",
"weight": "72.00",
"notes": "some notes for Daniela"
},
"appointments": [
{
"id": 2,
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-07-03T00:00:00.000Z",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2",
"treatment": {
"id": 3,
"appointment_id": 2,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 2",
"treatment_details": [
{
"id": 1,
"task": "Take 5 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "0000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
},
{
"id": 2,
"task": "Take 10 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "00000000000000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"id": 1,
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-05-30T00:00:00.000Z",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2",
"treatment": {
"id": 1,
"appointment_id": 1,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 1",
"treatment_details": []
}
}
]
}]
/patients/:id GET (id: user_id)
{
"id": 1,
"first_name": "Daniela",
"last_name": "Fuller",
"email"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"rol_id": 2,
"medical_record": {
"id": 1,
"user_id": 1,
"birthday": "1995-09-30",
"height": "1.70",
"weight": "72.00",
"notes": "some notes for Daniela"
},
"appointments": [
{
"id": 2,
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-07-03T00:00:00.000Z",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2",
"treatment": {
"id": 3,
"appointment_id": 2,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 2",
"treatment_details": [
{
"id": 1,
"task": "Take 5 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "0000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
},
{
"id": 2,
"task": "Take 10 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "00000000000000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"id": 1,
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-05-30T00:00:00.000Z",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2",
"treatment": {
"id": 1,
"appointment_id": 1,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 1",
"treatment_details": []
}
}
]
}
/doctors GET
[
{
"first_name": "Javier",
"last_name": "Sotomayor",
"email"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"profession": null
}
]
/doctors/:id GET (id: user_id)
{
"first_name": "Javier",
"last_name": "Sotomayor",
"email"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"profession": null
}
/appointments/:id GET (id: appointment_id)
{
"id": 1,
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-05-30T00:00:00.000Z",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2"
}
/appointments POST
{
"patient_id": 1,
"doctor_id": 2,
"height": null,
"weight": null,
"glucotest": null,
"scheduled": "2018-07-03",
"notes": "Some notes for appointment with patient_id =1, doctor_id=2"
}
/treatments POST
{
"appointment_id": 2,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 2",
"treatment_details": [
{
"task": "Take 5 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"frequency_id": 2
},
{
"task": "Take 10 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"frequency_id": 2
}
]
}
/treatments/:id GET (id: treatments_id)
{
"id": 3,
"appointment_id": 2,
"notes": "Some notes for appointment_id: 2",
"treatment_details": [
{
"id": 1,
"task": "Take 5 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "0000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
},
{
"id": 2,
"task": "Take 10 pills weekly in 2 weeks",
"compliance": "00000000000000000000",
"frequency_id": 2,
"treatment_id": 3,
"frequency": {
"id": 2,
"frequency": "Weekly"
}
}
]
}


About Me
The generic run down is that I’m a front end engineer. I’ve been working professionally since 2008 I’ve been doing it even longer though for my high school and for fun. I am 23 years old and I am lucky to have over 5 years of real world experience. I currently work and reside in San Francisco. I’m happily married and expecting my first and only child soon. Here’s to hoping he’s a coder :).
Now the not so generic run down. When I was in the 8th grade I created my first web site using freewebs.com and I added google ads but with my mothers info, because after all you had to be 18 to get the money. Clever or not I thought hey I can have my classmates come to the site and help generate some cash for me by viewing my pages a lot, I was young and dumb … well I got banned from google ads :(.
I started making money online through myspace layouts and I made a nice income while still in high school.
My junior year of high school, it was a small school around 300 students I created a social network for the school. I created it through a tool called Kick apps and within 3 days had several thousand views and eventually caused the site to be shut down by “the man”.
 I love how our industry is always progressing. I love the ability to create something out of nothing. I’m obsessed with javascript and i’m obsessed with learning new things.
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@main("Create gifs of the chess games") {
First of all, the visual assets like the board image and the pieces were taken from the Lichess.org. They are available from their Github repository under MIT license.
This service was created because I need a test Play Framework application. So the quality is not really the swiss watch like.
It's deployed to Heroku, because they have out-of-the-box support for Play apps. It's powered by their free dyno, so it has really limited resources and it might fall down any moment. Also, the service doesn't use any persistence options, it all sits in the memory cache (which should be pretty small for the free dyno), so if you share a link to a gif it might not work after that. In fact, it won't work for certain after some time, just like Snapchat, but for other reasons.
Oh, this also uses Bootstrap to look less hideous, which includes free use of Glyphicons, that otherwise are not.
If something doesn't work or you have any feedback or feature requests, ping me on Twitter or tweet the words with the hashtag: #chessgifs and I'll try to get onto it swiftly. Alternatively, check out the code and connect on the Github: cgif.


Accumulate HCL Technologies; target of Rs 1285: Dolat Capital
Dolat Capital recommended accumulate rating on HCL Technologies with a target price of Rs 1285 in its research report dated October 24, 2019.
by Broker ResearchDolat Capital's research report on HCL Technologies
HCL Tech reported strong performance in Q2 with a 6% CC terms QoQ growth in revenues, despite lower-than-expected inorganic addition. OPM rebounds by 290bps QoQ at 20% against our expectation of 18.2% (adjusted margins at 19.3%). H1 OPM now within the guided band of 18.5%-19.5%. Guidance revised up by 100bps+ to 15%-17% CC; more importantly organic component is expected to be about 10%-11% that implies HCLT would now be the growth leader in FY20; organically. Management is confident on its growth outlook across business segments and expects IBM acquisition to achieve similar-to-better numbers on profitability. Also expect it to emerge as strong cross-sell engine in near term. Strong operating performance, upward revision in guidance, robust outlook and confident commentary reinforces our preferred pick view on the stock.
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Example:
class Person {
Person(String fullName) {}
}
class Child extends Person {
Child(String name) { super(name); }
}
After the quick-fix is applied:
class Person {
Person(String fullName) {}
}
class Child extends Person {
Child(String fullName) { super(fullName); }
}
Use the options to indicate whether to ignore overridden parameter names that are only a single character long or come from a library method. Both can be useful if you do not wish to be bound by dubious naming conventions used in libraries.


Hi ! Welcome back to KarEva Beauty. Today I thought that I would share with you guys my top 5 favourite makeup products. These include my everyday makeup essentials, which are the perfect product to help you create an everyday natural look.
To purchase any of the products that I have included, simply click on the image of the product and you will be directed to the website to purchase the exact product that I use! Hope you enjoy.
My first favourite makeup product, is the Tarte Tartlette In Bloom Palette. This eyeshadow palette comes with 12 eyeshadows, with various ranges of natural shades and includes both shimmer and matte shadows. I use the palette on the regular, to create my everyday natural eye looks or even a dark smoky eye. This palette is great and you can create many different eye shadow looks with this one palette.
Price: $60.00 - Purchase at Sephora
The picture below, displays swatches for half the shades in the palette, but these 6 are my favourite. I often use funny girl or firecracker on the lid. Then I apply jetsetter in the crease and finally use rebel, leader, and activist to darken the outer crease. Follow these steps and you can create the perfect eye look!
From left to right the names of the shades are: Jetsetter, Funny Girl, Rebel, Firecracker, Leader, and Activist
The foundation I use every single day is the Too Faced Born This Way Foundation. I cannot stop using it!! It provides a medium to full coverage, to create the perfect base for your makeup – providing you with a flawless complexion. The packaging is so cute, you cannot go wrong with this product. The foundation also comes in 24 different shades ranging from light to dark so I’m sure you will be able to find the right shade for your complexion!
Price: $49.00 - Purchase at Sephora
To get that bronzed look, I use Benefit Cosmetics Hoola Bronzer! It gives the perfect bronzed glow to the skin. This is great to use now as the winter months are approaching and everyone can use a nice bronze to their complexion. I use the original Hoola Bronzer shade and I have a medium complexion. If you are fair, the bronzer does come in a lighter shade called Hoola Lite, which is perfect for those with lighter skin tones.
Price: $38.00 - Purchase at Benefit Cosmetics or Sephora
One can never forget mascara! It completes any look. My all-time favourite is the Maybelline Lash Sensation Waterproof Mascara. This mascara is perfect, it lengthens and volumizes your eyelashes to give a false like effect. This is one of the best waterproof mascara’s I have used, even my makeup remover couldn’t take it off so I’m sure it will last you all day. Be sure to pick up a waterproof makeup remover – it is a lifesaver because this mascara is hard to get off! I would definitely recommend that you purchase this product as it is a staple product in my routine.
Price: $5.96 - Purchase at WalMart or Shoppers Drug Mart
Lastly, for my lips I use the MAC Lip Liner in the shade Whirl. This is a classic in the beauty world, ever since Kylie Jenner announced that she uses this product to get her perfect natural lip colour. It looks amazing on Kylie and this shade works really well for practically any skin type, it's a great universal shade that can suit many skintones. It's the perfect lip colour and will look great on everyone!
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--- layout: page title: Teaching --- Teaching statement and portfolio. Course description, syllabus and materials can be found below.
This class was taught during the 2013-2014 academic year in collaboration with Pr. Antje Ellermann. It serves as the final class in the Honours program at UBC.
The class consists in a series of lectures on research methods, after which students embark on their own research project. Throughout the remainder of the year students present their progress to their colleagues and meet individually with their assigned instructor and co-instructor.
I created two documents (Tools and Datasets) with the goal of helping students start this long project on the right foot. Although these documents are intended primarily for students writing a quantitative thesis, it could also be useful for other types of research.
I participated in the design/elaboration as well as the teaching of this new first year course. The goal was to prepare students to engage with the field of political science by introducing them to the basic logic and tools used by political scientists to understand and explain the political world. More precisely, the idea is to teach students how political scientists ask answerable questions; how we define key political concepts; how we formulate hypotheses and theories about political dynamics; how we measure the phenomena we want to study; how we think about and assess relationships of cause-and-effect; and how we report our findings to the world.
The course was launched in September 2012 and the work was done in collaboration with Beth Schwartz, Andrea Nuesser, Pr. Alan Jacobs, Pr. Anjali Thomas Bohlken and Pr. Fred Cutler.


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Japan’s Exports Drop Most Since 2016 Amid Trade Wars and Typhoon
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Japan’s exports suffered their largest drop in three years in October, as the U.S.-China trade war continued to hit global demand and extreme weather disrupted output at home.
Exports fell 9.2% from a year ago, dropping for an 11th month and extending the longest streak of monthly declines since 2016, Ministry of Finance data showed Wednesday. Economists had forecast a 7.5% slide. Exports to China and the U.S., Japan’s two biggest markets, logged double-digit falls. Drops in automobile and steel shipments were major factors, along with damage from last month’s super typhoon.
Key Insights
- Despite rumblings that Washington and Beijing are nearer to a truce that could roll back tariffs, global manufacturers remain in a funk over the global economy and uncertainty surrounding the trade outlook.
- Takeshi Minami, economist at Norinchukin Research Institute, said the continued weakness in exports could be a factor that pushes the Japanese government to add to the size of a stimulus package announced earlier this month, partly to shield the economy from the global slowdown. “We may see politicians increasingly calling for a sizable economic package,” he said.
- Still, the latest data, partly distorted by bad weather, needn’t be a cause for pessimism, Norinchukin’s Minami said, adding that there were further signs that the worst was over for the global tech sector.
- Speaking after the data was released, a finance ministry official said that manufacturing disruption caused by Typhoon Hagibis may have contributed to October’s drop in auto trade.
- The export slump has made the economy more dependent on consumer demand at a particularly vulnerable time. A sales tax hike introduced last month is expected to weigh heavily on spending this quarter.
- South Korean boycotts of Japanese products likely contributed to the drop in Japan’s exports of autos and food to its neighbor, according to economist Yutaro Suzuki at Daiwa Institute of Research Holdings. Since summer, the two countries have been embroiled in their own trade spat stemming from a dispute over Japan’s colonial past. Exports to Korea fell 23% in October.
What Bloomberg’s Economist Says
“The U.S.-China trade war continues to undermine supply-chain demand, and remains the biggest downside risk to Japan’s exports.”
--Yuki Masujima, economist
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- Imports slid 14.8% in October, compared with economists’ median estimate of a 15.2% slump.
- The trade balance was a 17.3 billion yen surplus, the first surplus since June.
- Exports to China dropped 10.3%, while shipments to the U.S. fell 11.4%.
- Chipmaking equipment exports were down 5.7% in October, compared with average falls of 16.2% over the six months through September. Exports of chips were up 3.6% in the month, compared with average falls of 2.3% in the prior six months.
(Updates economist comments.)